Senior Database Reliability Engineer

Posted 9 Days Ago
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Foster City, CA
135K-155K Annually
Senior level
Information Technology • Security • Cybersecurity
The Role
The Senior Database Reliability Engineer is responsible for maintaining production systems, performing installations and configurations, tuning performance of various databases, ensuring data integrity and security, and collaborating closely with different teams to support Qualys production applications while optimizing database performance.
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Come work at a place where innovation and teamwork come together to support the most exciting missions in the world!

The Qualys SaaS platform is database centric and relies heavily on Oracle, Elasticsearch, Cassandra, Kafka, Redis, Janusgraph, Ceph, Hadoop etc to deliver 24x7 service to our customers worldwide.
We are looking for an individual who is proficient in 2 or more of the above-mentioned technologies. He must be enthusiastic in learning new technologies and automate day-2-day tasks.

This individual is primarily responsible for keeping productions systems running across our many worldwide platforms. Working knowledge on OCI or any other public cloud is a plus.

DBRE will be working closely with Development/Engineering, SRE, Infra, Networking, Support teams and Worldwide Customers to provide 24x7 Support for Qualys production applications to improve the service through database optimizations. This position will report to Manager DBRE.

Responsibilities:

Perform installation, configuration, performance tuning of Oracle/Elasticsearch/Cassandra/Kafka/Redis/Ceph/Janusgraph in multi-DC environment.

Identifying the bottlenecks and performance tuning.

Responsible for integrity and security of the database.

Monitoring performance and managing configuration parameters to provide fast query responses to front-end users.

Installation and testing of new databases as well as patching of existing live databases.

Ensuring that storage, archiving, back-up and recovery procedures are functioning correctly.

Go extra-mile in understanding business application and suggest / perform necessary database or architecture changes.


How we work..
With others. We have remote pairing tools where engineers often work together, as well as virtual collaboration tools for building out architecture solutions.

With transparency. We encourage open dialog and discourse. We do not encourage silos.

With agility. We do not believe in following a process for process’s sake. We ship frequently and focus on delivering incremental value.

With open minds. We are committed to building a diverse team of people with unique perspectives. This encourages a healthy and inclusive environment that builds a more sustainable, successful company.

With pride. We value our people most of all. We invest in ourselves by applying our own strengths and interests to company needs.
Qualifications:
BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Applied Math, or related field.

Minimum 8+ years of extensive experience managing SQL & No-Sql databases in production.

Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Should have extensive knowledge of diagnostic, monitoring and troubleshooting tools to identify performance bottlenecks, and take appropriate corrective actions to improve database performance.

Knowledge of operating interrelationships between database, business applications and operating systems.

Understand backup and recovery scenarios.

Familiarity with real time data synchronization.

Problem-solving and good analytical skills.

Must be able to work with multiple groups to resolve data issues.

Must have experience of working in mid to large size production environment.

Should have working knowledge on Ansible/Jenkins/git/Grafana.

Demonstrated passion for innovation with an ability to work within agile software development methodologies

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Annual Salary Guidelines: $135,000 - $155,000

Qualys is an Equal Opportunity Employer, please see our EEO policy.

Top Skills

Cassandra
Ceph
Elasticsearch
Hadoop
Janusgraph
Kafka
Oracle
Redis
The Company
2,736 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 1999

What We Do

Qualys, Inc. (NASDAQ: QLYS) is a pioneer and leading provider of disruptive cloud-based security, compliance and IT solutions with more than 10,000 subscription customers worldwide, including a majority of the Forbes Global 100 and Fortune 100. Qualys helps organizations streamline and automate their security and compliance solutions onto a single platform for greater agility, better business outcomes, and substantial cost savings.
The Qualys Cloud Platform leverages a single agent to continuously deliver critical security intelligence while enabling enterprises to automate the full spectrum of vulnerability detection, compliance, and protection for IT systems, workloads and web applications across on premises, endpoints, servers, public and private clouds, containers, and mobile devices. Founded in 1999 as one of the first SaaS security companies, Qualys has strategic partnerships and seamlessly integrates its vulnerability management capabilities into security offerings from cloud service providers, including Amazon Web Services, the Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure, along with a number of leading managed service providers and global consulting organizations. For more information, please visit http://www.qualys.com

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